[quote="darkcity"]hi Ed Howdershelt
More information about the computers sound hardware would be useful.
go to PuppyMenu > System > Hardinfo
under multimedia the audio adapters should be listed, what are they?[/quote]

Hardinfo says Audio is HDA-Intel

Alsamixer says the chip is LSI ID 1040

[quote] Also do you have a speaker icon on the panel?[/quote]

Nope. No speaker icon.

[quote]Finally, what's returned if you type[color=green] aplay -l[/color] into the terminal emulator ?
(terminal is under utilities and middle mouse button will paste highlighted text from terminal into web-browser)
:twisted:[/quote]

UPDATE: I found some Toshiba recover disks, turned off the router to kill wifi commo, and sat through the long, annoying reinstall of Vista into the NTFS partition. At long last it booted one last time and seemed to work fine. I immediately disabled updates and the ethernet and wifi functions.

Booted a Puppy 528 live CD and again had sound. Also had wifi, camera, and all else, as far as I could tell.

Could be the easiest immediate solution is to figure out how to dualboot a full Puppy installation with Vista. I know I can install a pup boot to the MBR and get a grub menu that will include Vista, but that won't boot Vista. I'm wondering if that matters, as long as Vista is there and otherwise in running order.
If I don't find a suitable dualboot solution, I'll try it the usual way.

IF... If there's a way to run Puppy alone on this laptop, that's what I'll do.
I don't just dislike Vista, I HATE it and getting rid of it would free up a 40 gig partition for other stuff.
Thanks,
Ed

Reinstalling Vista turned the sound back on.
Installing Puppy went fine and sound worked, even after a restart/reboot.

BUT... when I completely turned off the computer, then turned it back on, NO SOUND in either Vista or Puppy.

At this point, I'm looking only for a solution in some flavor of Linux.
No more messing with Vista; I might put XP on it for a few things, but the only real OS will be Linux.
Tired of messing with this tinkertoy laptop.
Ed

[quote="cthisbear"]Move all the Vista files with puppy to a folder called

>>> 1 Old Vista.

Move the lot.

Now boot Puppy.....see if it barks etc.

Because what you did sounds strange.

You can always move those files back....again with Puppy.

Hiren's would work as well >>> using Mini Windows
and the Explorer file manager on the Mini Windows desktop.

"""

You can delete >>>> all these
Recycle
System Volume information = System Restore
pagefile
hiberfil.sys

[quote="darkcity"]I'm glad you have sound now, but as Chris says - I can't see why the solution you used worked ; -)
looks like you have standard sound hardware, maybe it was disable in the BIOS? :evil:[/quote]

No idea why it worked (temporarily, until off/on).
I don't think it's standard sound hardware. I think Toshiba tried to get cute with the board design and created flaws.
Ed

[quote="darkcity"]I still think the hda-intel driver should work-
[url]https://www.dea.icai.upcomillas.es/romano/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToshibaU305[/url]
Okay, we need to start again from the top. Though at this stage it may be an intermittent hardware fault.
---
Do a fresh install of Puppy, I recommend 5.29 or Slacko 5.3x

Run PuppyMenu > Setup > ALSA sound wizard
or type [color=green]alsaconf[/color] into terminal
what results do you get?
:twisted:[/quote]

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum